A raw personal essay collection by the internationally known author of Cockfight and Human Sacrifices on the terror of being in a female body in a misogynistic world.What does it mean to move with a woman’s body through a misogynistic world? María Fernanda Ampuero, one of the greatest writers of the new wave of Latin American gothic fiction, answers this question in this personal essay collection that’s part analysis, part confessional, and part h...

This book addresses the urgency of rethinking coexistence through urbanism. In the face of contemporary global crises, it argues that modern thought and its dichotomiesare insufficient to grasp current territorial conflicts. Instead, it proposes viewing coexistence as a field of friction among beings, knowledges, and economiesintertwined within a relational ecology, suggesting that these connections serve as the very point of departure for urbanism.Grounded in researc...

Sam Sanchez might not have a coach or proper equipment, but she's going to become Chile's first weightlifting gold medalist. She just knows it. When there's an opportunity to train at the high-performance centre with her weightlifting hero and Olympic gold medallist Eva Dos Santos . . . Sam can't let that opportunity pass. Even if it means going behind her parents' back. As she makes friends (and a rival) during training and tries to qualify for the Pan American Games, she'll find out how ...

In the first volume of our new series She Was an Architect, journalist Laura Helena Wurth vividly recounts the fascinating life of American-Italian architect Astra Zarina: born in Riga in 1929, her life spans Seattle and Rome. In 1960, she became the first woman to win the American Academy's Rome Prize for Architecture. Although she had previously been involved in the planning of the modernist Märkisches Viertel district in Berlin, she subsequently moved to Rome and concentrated on trainin...

From the award-winning author of Pink Slime comes a hypnotic novel of rage, solitude, and metamorphosis, set on a mountain where the living and the dead refuse to stay silent.Winner of the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz PrizeA woman lives alone on the slope of a mist-covered mountain, hired by a man she has never seen to patrol the boundary between the cloud forest and the quarry that is slowly devouring it. In her notebooks, she record...

Discover just how easy it is to learn Brazilian Portuguese with this updated edition of The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book with new online audio so you can quickly access the pronunciation guide and exercises while you’re reading.The Everything Learning Brazilian Portuguese Book, 2nd Edition makes Brazilian Portuguese a breeze to learn. Whether you are interested in the area or are adding a valuable second language to your resume, y...

In a rundown apartment building, in an unnamed city in Uruguay, a father and daughter close themselves off from the world."The world is this house," says Clara, and the rooftop becomes their last recess of freedom. A pet canary is their only witness.As Clara’s connection to the outside is stripped away—the neighbor who stops coming by, the lover whose existence is only known by a pregnancy—desperation and paranoia take hold. It's a stifling embrace, and we ...

Winner of the Uruguayan National Literature Prize for Fiction, the Bartolomé-Hidalgo Fiction Prize, and the Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Literature Prize.A port city is in the grips of an ecological crisis. The river has filled with toxic algae, and a deadly ‘red wind’ blows through its streets; much of the coast has been evacuated as the wealthy migrate inland to safety, leaving the rest to shelter in abandoned houses as blackouts and food shortages abound.Th...

LEAFIE'S GREAT ADVENTURE ACROSS THE WORLDThe journey of a leaf is a story full of magic about how things change, about how awesome nature is and about how each one of us, no matter how little we are, has an important role. Come discover the magic behind the words here and let yourself go on this wonderful adventure, where something that seems so simple becomes so very special, and where with each page turned something about life is learned.**Acc...

Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for examining and addressing pathways of interaction between biological and social aspects of chronic and acute suffering in populations. While much research to date addresses known syndemics such as those involving HIV, diabetes, and mental illness,...

Accessible Editing with Image DescriptionsEdição acessível com descrição de imagensTHE SEARCH BEGINS IN THE HOUSE, WHERE MANY OBJECTS ARE OUT OF PLACE, SO HURRY UP AND RUN! ON THE WAY, YOU WILL LEARN, LAUGH AND HAVE MUCH FUN!Are you ready to embark on an adventure in search of lost objects in the house? Then, get the book Where is it? and start exploring each room looking for clues. Look for the yello...

In the magical forest of Hope Village, Olivia, a little canary, loved the night sky and the stories carried on the breeze. But Olivia had a big challenge: she couldn't sing when others were around. No matter how much she wanted to share her song, something always kept her silent. With her friends, Bolota and Pipa, by her side, Olivia embarks on a journey to uncover the mystery of her missing voice. Will she find the courage to overcome her fears and let her song be heard? A touching tale o...